Citizens in Crimea have been displaying signs reading
“Putin is our president” and ”Russia, we have been abandoned, take us
back!” Late Sunday in the city of Kerch, the Ukrainian flag above the city administration building was taken down and hoisted the Russian flag in its place.

At the same time, armored vehicles from the Russian military base
in Sevastopol blocked all entrances to the city — essentially protecting
it — after local authorities refused to recognize the new Ukrainian
government.

What’s more, 20,000 Ukrainians spontaneously appointed a local
businessman and Russian national to head the city. He immediately
announced his refusal to transfer any local tax revenues to Kiev
and announced authority over the city’s police force.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that units of the Russian forces
which formed a steel ring around the Olympic Winter Games that ended in
Sochi Sunday were flown and shipped Monday, Feb. 24 to Russian bases at
the Ukrainian Crimean port of Sevastopol, as Moscow refused to recognize the legitimacy of the new authorities in Kiev.

Giant Russian Air Force transports and rapid deployment forces were
placed on alert at the Rostov on-Don base east of the predominantly
Russian-speaking southeastern Ukrainian town of Donetsk.

Russian military movements were also
sighted near Belgorod, a Russian town 40 kilometers from the Ukraine
border and north of its second largest town of Kharkov. There, too, most
of the inhabitants are Russian speaking with a strong affinity to
Moscow – in contrast to their European-oriented compatriots in the
capital, Kiev.

These military movements were accompanied by sharp Russian rhetoric
in Moscow’s first direct response to the tumult in Kiev and ouster of
the pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych, against whom Kiev police
Monday issued a warrant for mass murder.

Prime Minister Of The Russian FederationDmitry Medvedev

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Monday:

“Today I see no legitimate Ukrainian partners
for a dialogue. If people crossing Kyiv in black masks and Kalashnikov
rifles are considered a government, it will be difficult for us to work
with such a government,” he said, calling it “the result of a mutiny.”

The prime minister spoke of a “real threat to our interests, and to our citizens’ lives and health.”

With these comments, the Russian leader laid down a pretext for Russian military intervention in Ukraine.

Piece of shit ~ Susan Rice. Her dad was the former governor of the Federal Reserve System. How Interesting is that?

Susan Rice lied about the events surrounding the Benghazi
massacre. Hillary Clinton, the only First Lady to have been the subject
of a grand jury investigation. “Hillary Clinton’s and Rice’s lies about
one of the most significant terrorist attacks since 9/11 are, perhaps,
the scandal of the year out of this administration,” Judicial Watch
noted. That scandal, however, is far from over.

It was Moscow’s response to the warning issued by US National
Security Adviser Susan Rice Sunday, Feb. 23, that “it would be a grave
mistake for Russia to send military force.” An area emerging as a potential flashpoint in the Ukraine crisis is the Crimean peninsula in the south.

This Filchenkov is the naval “landing” ship for Russia.

Today at 12:00 from the Russian port of Temryuk should arrive in
Sevastopol, the large landing ship “Nikolai Fil’chenkov” with 200
soldiers on board. This was reported today by the chairman of the
Ukraine “Freedom” faction Oleg Tyagnibok citing sources in the Crimean.
Six Hi-8 Helicopters were sent to Anapa.

When Ukraine broke away from the Soviet Union in 1991, it took Crimea
with it. Moscow has since leased the strategically critical naval base
as a deep-water port for the Russian Black Sea Fleet, with easy access
to the Mediterranean. The lease is paid up to 2042. Ethnic Russians make
up almost 60 per cent of the population, with Ukrainians and Crimean
Tatars accounting for the rest. If Ukrainian turmoil continues and it
faces a real threat of breaking up, Vladimir Putin may seize the
opportunity to recover the peninsula. The Russian military force in
Sevastopol was already beefed up Monday.

6 Mi-8 Helicopters to AnapaIL-76
flights airlifted from Kubinka (Moscow region) to Anapa, personnel from
the 45th Airborne Special Forces unit and additional divisions were
relocated via four Il-76 flights from Pskov to Anapa. And from Sochi to
Anapa were transported six Mi-8 helicopsters”- said Tyahnibok.

This is the problem with the whole Ukrainian mess. The West wants to be tied to Europe, the South and East wants to be tied with Russia, and this is the whole crux of Ukraine's future. The Western forces utilized the Orange Revolution in 2004 to overturn what they considered a fraud of an election, and now they depose an elected government. So, the West thinks the South and East utilize fraud and taking to the streets to get what they want while the West thinks that the South and East rigs elections.

Now, the Russians aren't going to do anything right away; they're going to wait and see how this situation plays out a bit. Don't get me wrong, they're going to bulk up their forces in case it becomes necessary. If the new government in Kiev gains immediate legitimacy and demonstrates immediate competence, then the Russians are going to stand down.

On the other hand, if those in the South and East start to make demands on the new government and undermine it, the Russians could very well step in, and considering its their neighborhood and would have very little logistical troubles, we would have to step aside and let the partition the country. The EU is also going to do nothing since they're too dependent on Russia for energy needs and don't have the forces that can challenge the Russians.